n. 所指（语言符号的意义）；意指
v. 表明，预示；作为……的符号；（人）表明（情感）；要紧；相互吹牛；（用符号或手势）表达（signify 的过去式和过去分词）
1.If both of these have the equal affect, it is signified that a large variation of the sea level would have not taken place.
两者如起同等作用，则意味着海平面不会发生太大的变化。
2.His loyalty earned him the Nobel award that signified nothing to do with peace he disdained.
他的忠诚，为他赢得了诺贝尔文学奖，标志着完全与和平，他抱成一团。
3.They found duck could hatch a brood of little ducks, which denoted (signified) the original husbandry.
他们发现鸭子能够孵出更多的小鸭子，这标志着原始畜牧业的开始。
4.And beyond all these lie two basic series of binary oppositions of Structuralism: langue and parole, the signifier and the signified.
在他们具体的阐释背后，可以窥见结构主义文论最基本的两组二元对立项：语言与言语、能指与所指。
5.A ham hanging in the smokehouse signified insurance against hard times.
挂在烟熏房里的火腿意味着抵御艰难岁月的保障。
6.The clouds signified the coming storm.
乌云预示着即将有暴风雨。
7.That action signified to us your support, and was hardly something that one would do if he truly found the contracts "distasteful."
这样的举动让我们看到了公司的支持，而似乎如果发现这些合同是鸡肋的话，几乎没有人会这样做。